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Ongoing, First published May 01, 2020
"...so what do you think happens to a person if their azmosis is too low..?" He quietly asked slowing the pace at which he spoke, trying to mask his clear nervousness.

Zuri would soon find out.
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As a government attempt to lower crime rates and promote world peace, a new technology has been invented that scores a person based on the number of good or bad deeds a person has committed. Everyone starts at a hundred-- a perfect score but with every moral oddity that the system finds, points are deducted. They can be gained too, if a person does a good deed, saves a life or acts in a way that's deemed commendable. 

They call this score azymus. It dictates a person's occupation, wealth, to whom their heart is allowed to yearn for, what dreams were already shattered or could be fulfilled; in essence, their very place in this world.

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